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Dnp Final Report: Reducing The Rate Of Falls With A Stuctured Fall Program, Elanda L. Douglas

DNP Final Reports

Background: Fall rates continue to be a significant problem in health care facilities despite all the research and tool kits created to prevent falls. Hospitals that have successfully reduced fall rates find it challenging to sustain a reduction in the fall rates. During hospitalizations, 3%-20% of patients fall, with 30%-50% resulting in injury (Joint Commission, [JC], 2015).

Internal Evidence: Despite Medical City Alliance (MCA) having an evidence-based fall program, the fall rate has not decreased. Falls are one of the quality measures identified at the division level that needs improvement.

PICOT: In adult patients in a progressive care unit (P), …

Diving Deep: Deepening The Intervention And Setting Strategic Vision For The Future, Christina Carter, Rebekah Holbrook, Charles Johnson

Division of Community Engagement Resources

Richmond YPQI has provided a quality improvement process since 2012, growing from 12 sites to 50. Network leads will describe efforts to respond to network participant and funder/stakeholder needs to deepen the intervention and set strategic goals for the continuous quality improvement process. This includes creating a strategic plan, impact framework and rubric to assess the readiness of an organization to participate. Additional items include advanced Methods trainings and a professional learning community. A portion of the workshop will allow participants to reflect on their networks and consider opportunities to deepen the intervention and/or set strategic goals.

A New Perspective For Quality Improvement In Teaching And Learning Processes, Boon Han Yeap

EDU-COM International Conference

Education has always been facing the challenge in ensuring that the quality of teaching and learning takes place effectively. One possible path for improving the quality of education lies in the application of a Quality Management approach as has been used in Industries, to the teaching and learning process. This paper adopts and uses the principles from one of the Quality Management methods, Total Quality Management as the pedagogical methodology and improved framework in managing, scrutinizing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning practices in higher education. The paper focuses on the limited application areas of specific key components …